Linear Algebra is easy, I don't know what choices you have now, but take it with Dr stanford. DE is hard(harder than cal 1 and 2 id say) and requires a lot of work practicing problems. I took it with Turi, he's a monster but I learned alot. I think LA and DE over the summer is very doabale as...
Ah hah! Let me guess you goto UTD? I am a jun/sen physics major at UTD.
My suggestion, do what I did. Take DE and LA over the summer, so you can get into MVC next fall. And yes you absolutley need to take linear algebra before you take anything else.
It seems like some schools require you to finish cal2 or 3 before the fresh/soph EM class. I guess it really depends on how its taught. At my school it was taught with a heavy emphasis on integration, not so much finding antiderivatives, but understanding when and how to integrate the sum of a...